Issue ads are insidiously evil

Right or left, these so-called 527, 501(c)4, and PAC committees are insidiously evil. The truth is not in them in large part because there are no sanctions for getting caught lying. No 527, 501(c)4 or PAC ever must be on a ballot subjecting its views to voter sanction or approval. The tax laws (written by partisan members of Congress) may specify that they are independent of candidates’ campaign organization, but every American who is capable of thought knows that in actuality they are not.

If John Kerry had dealt with the Swift Boat Veterans decisively and quickly, he would probably be completing his first term as president. (Remember, a change of just a few votes in a few precincts in a very few states would have changed the outcome of the 2004 election.) The Swift Boaters undoubtedly played a role in Kerry’s defeat, although his own indecisiveness in dealing with them and other issues clearly played an even bigger role in his not becoming president. Kerry was indecisive, but there still is no excuse for the kind of lying that the Swift boaters engaged in.

Does anyone even wonder who or what is financing these evil groups? In the case of the Swift boaters, it was a Texas oilman, and we all know how much the Texas oil money means to Bush and Cheney, et al. Neither party has a monopoly on cupidity or stupidity, and neither can make a case for being on the side of the angels.

Your comments regarding the 527/501c/etc. orginizations are spot on and your comments regarding Kerry’s poor response to the Swiftboaters, I suspect, are correct as well.

Were the “Swiftboaters” actually lying? Proof? Or were they simply stating “opinions”? I need real proof not the “proof” from an opposing 527/501c with their own corrupt agenda.

#2 Comment By CA On December 13, 2007 @ 11:02 am

Your comments regarding the 527/501c/etc. orginizations are spot on and your comments regarding Kerry’s poor response to the Swiftboaters, I suspect, are correct as well.

Were the “Swiftboaters” actually lying? Proof? Or were they simply stating “opinions”? I need real proof not the “proof” from an opposing 527/501c with their own corrupt agenda.

#3 Comment By Jim On December 13, 2007 @ 9:17 pm

Larry, Larry, Larry. The Swift Boat VETERANs for the Truth did not lie. Why don’t you quote the lies they told? The said Kerry was not in Cambodia in 1968 as he claimed he was. He said he was listening to President Nixon tell the world we were not in Cambodia while he was there. Too bad Nixon wasn’t President then, Johnson was. And he was no where near the Cambodia border during that time.

They said Kerry won three questionable purple hearts. Three purple hearts and he never spent a night in the infirmary! The biggest treatment was a band aid. My granddaughter gets worse injuries playing on a swing set.

The also put into question the silver star he won. They make a compelling case that although he came to the rescue of an army officer knocked off one of the Swift boats, the “under enemy fire” that was part of the citation was highly questionable. It seems of the five swift boats in this action, none of them had a bullet hit them. Either the enemy was the worst shot in the world, or they scampered off once the swift boats laid down covering fire without firing any rounds at them.

And after this three “purple hearts” he excercised an option to leave Vietnam after only three months and came back to the states to tell lies that dishonored all of the US servicemen.

Kerry had 9 swift boat veterans stand up for him. There was over 200 veterans who stood against him.

#4 Comment By Jim On December 13, 2007 @ 2:17 pm

Larry, Larry, Larry. The Swift Boat VETERANs for the Truth did not lie. Why don’t you quote the lies they told? The said Kerry was not in Cambodia in 1968 as he claimed he was. He said he was listening to President Nixon tell the world we were not in Cambodia while he was there. Too bad Nixon wasn’t President then, Johnson was. And he was no where near the Cambodia border during that time.

They said Kerry won three questionable purple hearts. Three purple hearts and he never spent a night in the infirmary! The biggest treatment was a band aid. My granddaughter gets worse injuries playing on a swing set.

The also put into question the silver star he won. They make a compelling case that although he came to the rescue of an army officer knocked off one of the Swift boats, the “under enemy fire” that was part of the citation was highly questionable. It seems of the five swift boats in this action, none of them had a bullet hit them. Either the enemy was the worst shot in the world, or they scampered off once the swift boats laid down covering fire without firing any rounds at them.

And after this three “purple hearts” he excercised an option to leave Vietnam after only three months and came back to the states to tell lies that dishonored all of the US servicemen.

Kerry had 9 swift boat veterans stand up for him. There was over 200 veterans who stood against him.

#5 Comment By Sharon B. On December 16, 2007 @ 2:20 am

With 210 people, that boat was no longesr “swift”. It probably sank. So 200 veterans repeated the story told by, how many?

This is what happens with a good rumor. It just keeps growing.

#6 Comment By Sharon B. On December 15, 2007 @ 7:20 pm

With 210 people, that boat was no longesr “swift”. It probably sank. So 200 veterans repeated the story told by, how many?